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Concept

Eyes, Artificial

Images

  • A lady retiring to bed, and ordering her maid to look after her artificial aids to beauty (wig, teeth, glass eye etc.). Coloured etching by P. Roberts after G.M Woodward.
  • A couple assemble their false body parts: false teeth, a glass eye and wigs. Coloured lithograph by L. Boilly, 1825.
  • A couple assemble their false body parts: false teeth, a glass eye and wigs. Coloured lithograph by L. Boilly, 1825.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Die Kunstaugensamlung der Universitätsaugenklinik Rostock / von Daniel Schubert.

    Schubert, Daniel | Date: [2020]
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0007413: Movable models of human eyes

    | Date: 6 September 1940 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/63/68
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Books
    • Online

    L'oeil artificiel / par Robert Coulomb.

    Coulomb, Robert, 1878- | Date: 1905
    • Archives and manuscripts

    M0007418: Display of artficial eyes

    | Date: 6 September 1940 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/63/73
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Pictures

    A couple assemble their false body parts: false teeth, a glass eye and wigs. Coloured lithograph by L. Boilly, 1825.

    Boilly, Louis, 1761-1845. | Date: 1825 | Reference: 16329i
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